How-to Install Sharepoint on Windows Home Server

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Tom

Hey Everybody,

As you may have noticed, blogging has been a little light for me lately, but that’s only because I’ve been working on something that I think everybody is looking for and that is a how-to guide for installing Sharepoint on Windows Home Server. The guide is available below, and if you have any questions, comments, or issues, please either comment below, or use the Contact page to contact me.

Download the Sharepoint on Windows Home Server Installation How-to Guide

Enjoy!

-Tom

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19 Responses to “How-to Install Sharepoint on Windows Home Server”

  1. Andrew Carr, on November 5th, 2007 at 6:25 pm Said:

    Hi Tom, I am having a go at using you instuctions to install Sharepoint on my home server. In my instance in order to get the Wndows Home Server web site running I had to go into the properties of the default web site (using the IIS manager as described) but I had to change the web site identification IP address box to the IP address of my WHS on my network, this then alowed the remote accesss to the WHS web page.

    I am looking forward to having a play with Sharepoint and see how I can use it on my home network.

  2. Steve, on November 21st, 2007 at 6:00 am Said:

    Hi Tom, Thanks for the useful guide. I have Sharepoint installation running successfully on my WHS system now. I have a question about data storage locations, which you may know the answer to. Is there a way to change the location of shared data (specifically documents) so as not to fill up the small 20GB C: drive of WHS? I realise it would moving the default storage area for the SQL server the product installs, but I can’t find any descriptions of how to do this.
    Any pointers?
    Thanks

  3. John, on December 1st, 2007 at 5:28 pm Said:

    You missed a key element in your how-to; instructions on how to move the SQL database either to the storage pool or a seperate, stand-alone drive. Installing WSS in the “C” drive, with its limited available space (20GB) in a WHS environment is a catastrophy waiting to happen.

  4. Stephen, on December 21st, 2007 at 4:05 am Said:

    Tom,

    I may have missed something here, I can access my sharepoint site by pointing my browser to my http://subdomain.livenode.com:8085 subdomain with the port number (I chose 8085 too), but I cannot access the sharepoint site locally by pointing my browser to http://servername:8085. I can still access the default WHS site by pointing my browser to http://servername/ (which redirects to https://servername/. not sure if this has something to do with the Alternate Access Mappings steps.

  5. Stephen, on December 21st, 2007 at 4:14 am Said:

    Tom,

    heh, never mind, I just add a new Advanced Web Site Identification for servername on the same port. (under website properties in inetmgr)

  6. Ray, on January 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am Said:

    Tom,

    Thanks for the instructions, I used them to get the initial site running.

    I also was concerned with the limited space on the C drive, so this is what I have been messing with……

    I did a complete uninstall, including the embedded data base(which does not uninstall with wss). I added sql express to the D drive and reinstalled wss using the advanced option, selecting “create a new server farm”. It seems to work fine….I have sharepoint running using sql express on D as the database server. We will see how it goes….. Oh and one more important thing…..WHS works just fine also.

  7. Ray, on January 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am Said:

    Tom,

    It should be mentioned that sql express only has a 4 gb capacity, but can be seamlesly upgraded to workgroup for $$$$ which I believe has an unlimited capacity.

  8. Zubin, on January 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pm Said:

    I have a question about Sharepoint installed on Home Server. Once installed, is it setup such that the credentials I enter on the Remote Access web page is automatically entered into Sharepoint once I link to it after logging into Remote Access (sort of a single-signon system)?

    Also any updates on the instructions for having the SQL database on D drive instead of C drive?

  9. Zubin, on January 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Said:

    What about using Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 with SP1 instead of the basic Windows Sharepoint Services? IS that possible with using your instructions?

  10. Zubin, on January 14th, 2008 at 10:55 pm Said:

    Sorry, I forgot to post the link to the Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 with SP1: IT is: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en

  11. Paul Fisher, on January 20th, 2008 at 9:42 am Said:

    So, if you install sharepoint on WHS, and you put the database on the D: drive, what is the strategy for backing up the database? I don’t believe there is a way to have WHS back up itself. I think the best method is to put the database on another machine and have that machine backed up nightly by WHS. Thoughts?

  12. Zubin Anary, on January 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 am Said:

    Hey Paul,

    On the older version of Sharepoint, I used to configure the database to perform nighly dumps and then finally copy the dumps over to a USB hard drive. It’s not the best solution, but it allows me to take an entirey copy of the SQL repository.

    I don’t know if the same works for this latest version with SP1.

    I also found this KB Aricle that might help.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833797

  13. paul, on February 1st, 2008 at 6:18 am Said:

    Hi I have installed it all But now i want it to work on a form based sign on.

    does anybody know how to do this?
    or a tutorial maybe handy.

  14. Frank, on March 16th, 2008 at 6:00 pm Said:

    I do have the exact same problem as Stephen wrote on December 21st, 2007. However, I did not find a solution. Do you have one? Thank you very much. Frank

  15. Motofreak, on March 31st, 2008 at 12:53 pm Said:

    that issue is nothing but a dns issue. if you enter in http://:8085 should work for you. or use the homeserver.com address if you have online.

  16. Motofreak, on March 31st, 2008 at 12:55 pm Said:

    correction: http://ipadress:8085 for local use or create a dns enter for the local lan use.

  17. eTroxx, on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm Said:

    First of all, thx Tom for the nice instruction. Worked fine for me.

    Paul aksed about a form based sign on. I think it´s very interesting for a lot WHS_Users with SharePoint using…
    Does anybody have a idea or solved this?!

    thx Troxx

  18. BigE, on July 13th, 2008 at 6:33 am Said:

    I created a share (SP-Data) from the Home Server console to store the SP data. I chose the advanced installation and pointed it to d:\Shares\SP-Data.

  19. Denny, on July 20th, 2008 at 6:18 pm Said:

    Thanks for the instruction. I can access the website internally but not internally. Can anyone shine a light for me?

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